Chancel House and Church House
Chancel House and Church House, Church Street, Hadlow, TN11 0DB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236882
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Chancel House and Church House
- Statutory Address:
- Chancel House and Church House, Church Street, Hadlow, TN11 0DB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236882
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Chancel House and Church House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Chancel House and Church House, Church Street, Hadlow, TN11 0DB
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Chancel House and Church House, Church Street, Hadlow, TN11 0DB
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hadlow
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 63415 49757
Details
TQ 63 49
7/22
HADLOW
CHURCH STREET (west side)
Chancel House and Church House
(Formerly listed as Church House and Police House)
20.10.54
GV
II
Pair of houses. Early C18 with some C19 and C20 modernisation. The ground floor level is Flemish bond brick, the first floor is timber-framed and hung with peg-tile on the end walls and mathematical tiles on the front; brick stacks and chimney shafts; peg-tile roof.
Plan: pair of contemporary mirror-plan cottages facing east, Chancel House to left (south) and Church House to right. Each has two principal rooms, parlour in the middle and dining room at the end. Direct entry through small internal porch into the parlour which is heated by a rear lateral stack. Stairs rise alongside this stack. Dining rooms have gable-end stacks. Integral rear outshots include the services. The kitchen share an axial stack in the party wall. Both are two storeys with attics and lean-to single-storey outshots.
Exterior: overall symmetrical five window front, all late C19 horned four-pane sashes, probably contemporary with the mathematical tiles. Paired front doorways. Both frames are early C18, so to is the fielded panel door to left (Chancel House) and the shared flat-roofed hood with moulded edges. Original timber eaves cornice including modillion brackets. Mansard roof is sprocketted to the front and to rear continues down over the service outshots. It is gable ended. Two front flat-roofed dormers to the attics. These and the windows in each gable end are casements; the right end one (Church Cottage) includes two originals containing diamond panes of leaded glass.
Interior: only Chancel House was inspected but Church House should be similar. Both front rooms have exposed axial beams, chamfered with runout stops. The curving back of the original brick fireplace in the parlour behind a replacement chimneypiece. The joinery detail is plain. Original roof structure is mostly plastered but there are staggered butt purlins between the trusses.
This is a particularly good pair of modest early C18 houses amongst a good group of listed buildings close by the Church of St Mary (q.v.).
Listing NGR: TQ6341549757
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 179458
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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